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NUNO'S FUTURE DOUBTS AS HE REVEALS RIFT WITH OWNER

- by ALAN SMITH

NUNO ESPIRITO SANTO has been around long enough to know that when a manager calls out his club's owner, there can only be one outcome.

So the Nottingham Forest head coach's decision to volunteer that his relationship with Evangelos Marinakis has broken down, presumably beyond repair, will not have been made off the cuff.

Instead, his comments appeared calculated, delivered calmly moments after speaking glowingly about the four new players to have been signed by Marinakis at a cost of £100m in the past week.

It was almost as if Nuno, 51, was talking himself out of a job.

As the former Spurs and Wolves boss said: "We have all been in the industry for a while now. And where there's smoke, there's fire. I know how things work."